Location:
worst location for those who mainly wants to do shopping, strongly advise to book in pratunam market area, as everyday we had to hail a cab. if you stay in pratunam area, you have that additional of minimum 4 clothes extra to spend on. we used grab however not 1 day was successful as we waited for almost 10mins however they couldn’t find our location and we had to walk out about 7mins and again wait to hail a cab.
additionally, no 7-11 or family mart within walking distance from the listing. no nearby BTS nor attraction malls.
Listing:
furnitures were rather shabby, had games like ps4, regular tv channel but not able to use them, can’t even turn it on. there were 8 of us, all the guys can’t even turn it on, perhaps this could be resolved by having an instruction written. the refrigerator also consisted of probably the host stuff. some containers looks unidentifiable when we first open. so would be a good suggestion to have the host item all placed to 1 side so that the guest can place theirs to another.
1-way transport:
It was a good gesture of providing free 1-way transport to pick us from the airport, as long minimum stay was 3nights, regardless of how many pax. However it fell short when the driver dropped us at the wrong location. We only realized it was wrong when the driver drove off and we can’t find the picture of the main door at our surrounding alighted area. We then had to use our gps, had to walk about 10mins to reach the listing. Since transport is provided, one would assume to be taken to the correct location right? thus nobody checked if we were at the correct place or not when we alighted.
Check-in:
check-in was rather smooth, we followed the host picture (sent through whatsapp) where he stored the keys, punched in the password and retrieved the key.
Electric bill:
We were shocked when we were only informed that we had to pay electric bill, as it was not part of the accommodation bill. Booking airbnb overseas was neither the first time for my group of friends nor myself, and it was the first ever we heard that we had to pay electric bill. This was not transparent in anywhere of the listing. We were only informed of such when we boarding the 1-way free transport in whatsapp. When the news were told, I immediately went back to the page to see exactly where was this line being told, searched high and low, nothing was found, neither was it in the house rule. we booked the stay from friday midnight to sunday. so our electric bills were counted for 2 full day (friday and saturday) at 755baht, we had 8 pax, that’s like SGD$32 for 2 days. quite a shocker that the bills came out so high. we either had to leave cash when we check-out or the host will bill to airbnb to charge us.